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Foulridge market report BB8, Colne
The BB8 (Foulridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 13,706 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB8 (Colne) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 138 registered 2026 sales put the BB8 (Colne) median at £143,800, down 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £161,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,880 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 13,706 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BB8 is a postcode district covering Colne, Foulridge, Laneshaw Bridge in Colne. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BB8 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in BB8
Across 138 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BB8 home went for £143,800. The mean is £161,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
BB8 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB8 costs about £1,880 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB8 50% below the country at large.
BB8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £143,800 | £143,800 | 138 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 402 |
| 2024 | £156,000 | £165,860 | 321 |
| 2023 | £132,200 | £145,256 | 318 |
| 2022 | £147,200 | £172,609 | 472 |
| 2021 | £149,000 | £188,653 | 588 |
| 2020 | £139,000 | £180,355 | 403 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 435 |
| 2018 | £122,000 | £162,628 | 404 |
| 2017 | £117,000 | £159,576 | 393 |
| 2016 | £105,000 | £146,896 | 394 |
| 2015 | £102,000 | £144,126 | 381 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 349 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 291 |
| 2012 | £89,000 | £130,997 | 267 |
| 2011 | £87,800 | £132,544 | 270 |
| 2010 | £85,200 | £133,616 | 265 |
| 2009 | £95,500 | £153,517 | 235 |
| 2008 | £90,000 | £147,529 | 324 |
| 2007 | £98,000 | £166,235 | 676 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 755 |
| 2005 | £75,000 | £133,470 | 592 |
| 2004 | £62,000 | £112,604 | 676 |
| 2003 | £53,000 | £97,639 | 668 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 646 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 554 |
| 2000 | £36,800 | £72,220 | 531 |
| 1999 | £36,000 | £71,746 | 482 |
| 1998 | £36,000 | £72,669 | 469 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 360 |
| 1996 | £28,500 | £60,105 | 339 |
| 1995 | £32,900 | £71,520 | 308 |
In cash terms the typical BB8 home went from £32,900 in 1995 to £143,800 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 101%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB8 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−13.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 68% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £300,000 against £112,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, BB8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £300,000 | 10 | 1,530 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 27 | 2,477 |
| Terraced | £122,000 | 91 | 9,286 |
| Flats | £112,500 | 10 | 394 |
What BB8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.1% | −12.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in BB8
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 309 sales completed in BB8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 637 sales a year before the financial crisis and 330 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around BB8
The local authority for BB8 is Pendle, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £652 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £483 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,067 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Pendle
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £143,800 median purchase price, a rent of £652 a month (£7,824 a year) works out at a 5.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What kind of market BB8 is
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What people ask about BB8 (Foulridge)
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What happens to BB8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in BB8 now
Everything above is what homes in BB8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 164 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% above the BB8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BB8 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in BB
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BB area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £225,000 | £309,995 (+38%) | £460,000 (+48%) | £670,000 (+46%) |
| Semi-detached | £149,975 | £175,000 (+17%) | £215,000 (+23%) | £290,000 (+35%) | £383,750 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £97,500 | £100,000 (+3%) | £129,950 (+30%) | £170,000 (+31%) | £230,000 (+35%) |
| Flat | £90,200 | £125,000 (+39%) | £170,000 (+36%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BB8 ranks 12 of 13 in the BB area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
BB area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BB8, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB8 0 | £93,000 | 35 |
| BB8 7 | £185,000 | 29 |
| BB8 8 | £155,000 | 33 |
| BB8 9 | £137,000 | 41 |
How BB8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BB7 | £257,500 | +3% |
| BB4 | £189,000 | +11% |
| BB2 | £180,000 | +22% |
| BB12 | £162,000 | +8% |
| BB6 | £161,900 | -5% |
| BB1 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB18 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB3 | £155,000 | +16% |
| BB8 (this report) | £143,800 | -3% |
| BB5 | £140,000 | +13% |
| BB9 | £135,000 | +29% |
| BB11 | £135,000 | +35% |
| BB10 | £125,000 | +7% |
Thinking of selling in BB8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BB8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Go deeper
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See every individual BB8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.